On October 25, two suicide bombs in Bagdad killed more than 130 people and wounded more than 500 people in one day. American military authorities claimed that the bombings were related to sectarian rivalries in Iraq. That may well be true. But I am surprised that American military authorities in Iraq do not see the continued violence. There are terrorists’ attempts to keep American military in Iraq for an extended period in order to bleed America further and weaken it to a point that it will have no choice but leave Iraq and the Middle East alone. Furthermore, At least 55 US servicemen have been killed in October -- the deadliest month of the war for America since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban.

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As President Obama and his administration reconsider American strategy in Iraq and take steps to scale down American military presence, and paves the way for the eventual withdrawal from Iraq in the near future, America needs a more stable social climate in order to justify its withdrawal from Iraq. The Americans like to think that they are a responsible lot. They invaded Iraq, supposedly to bring human rights and democracy to the Iraqi people. But instead, hundreds and thousands of innocent Iraqi people paid the ultimate prices, together with tens and thousands American own casualties in the eight years of Iraqi war. How can they leave amid the continued escalation of violence there?

Right after the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. hawks in the Senior Bush administration were arrogantly celebrating American victory in the cold war. It was the end of history, in some people’s eye. The Soviet Union and Communism were defeated. It was the U.S. destiny to build a “new world order”, with America’s unparalleled military superiority. They wanted to make the world safer for democracy by democratizing the Middle East, democratizing China, Asia and the whole third world. Because senior Bush and his followers did not win their reelection campaign, the New World order hawks in senior Bush’s administration had to wait eight more years to carry out its master plan when George W. Bush won his problematic campaign in 2000.

When Bush coined the new term Axis of evil in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, many people were perplexed by his lumping Iran, Iraq, Syria and North Korea, four unrelated countries together under that unfortunate umbra term. It was no random action on the part of George Bush. I believe that Iraq was only the first target of the New World Order hawks inside Bush Administration’s master plan. Once they pacified Iraqi, they would go east to attack Iran, and then go west to attack Syria. When these three countries were dealt with, they would find excuse to attack North Korea. Once they got rid of North Korea, they would provoke Chinese mainland to a fight over Taiwan ’s independence. Bush shocked the world when he declared that the U.S. would defend Taiwan’s independence with American military forces soon after he entered the White House in 2000. Many people thought that he made an unintentional error. It was no error at all. It was part of the master plan from the very beginning.

Terrorists’ resistance against American invasion in a way saved the Iran, Syria, and other American rivals from the war miseries the Iraqi people have gone through. Eight years in Iraq with thousands of casualties, the U.S. finally has come to the painful realization that powerful as America is it can not win over the terrorists. The reason is very simple. The terrorists do not need to win. They just need to continue, and American will not be able to stand the continuous bleeding for ever.

Iraqi war and the recent financial crisis have already bled America pale. But as a superpower, U.S. is like a giant with one hundred feet will not fall easily, as the old Chinese saying goes, “baizu zhichong, sier bujiang” (an insect with one hundred feet will die hard). I sincerely hope that American people and American government see through the terrorists’ evil intentions and strategies as soon as possible, and get out of Iraqi as well as Afghan as soon as possible before it is too late. America does not belong there. It will not be able to make things better in Iraq or Afghan. It should not be that hard to admit that it made a mistake in Iraqi and Afghan. To err is human. It is always better to get up from one’s mistake than to succumb to one’s mistake.

While I was writing this piece, one of American own, Major Hassen, opened fire on his fellow American soldiers, killing 13, wounding 30. This should be a serious warning to the American government and American people. American Government invaded Iraq with a series of lies. American Government should apologize to the Iraqi people and the American people for misleading the world about Saddam Hussein’s mass destruction weapons. It has not done it yet. Powerful as America is, misleading the world has serious consequences. As American people get to know more and more about the real nature of the war in Iraq and Afghan, this kind of events will happen less often in future. Unjust wars can not sustain, for American people will not support it, and victim peoples suffer from it and the world is tired of it.

Dongping Han is Professor of History and Political Science at Warren Wilson College, NC, and he contributes this article to China Daily.